Rambling

You know, I’ve been supporting teachers on this blog, but I have to admit that I had some lousy ones. I also had some great ones. What I want to do is support public schools and the unions. The attacks lately are designed to push tax dollars to private companies and fund corporate tax breaks with cuts to the middle class.

That is my problem with all of this.

I do, however, think that public schools need to be fixed. I have a feeling that there are a lot of teachers who should be replaced. I also think that the reason for that is that many schools have not been attracting the most qualified teachers because the budgets keep being cut so they don’t pay enough. It doesn’t help when teachers are targets, either.

The same is true with the quality of the schools themselves, their state of repair. Budget cuts lead to lower school quality in level of education and buildings falling apart.

Unions get blamed a lot, but you can have a union and still be able to fire unqualified teachers. They are not mutually exclusive. And I don’t think collective bargaining ever kept a roof from being repaired.

Fix the problem, don’t just trash the entire school system. However bad things are, it is not the ‘public’ part that is the problem. A phrase about babies and bath water comes to mind.

Priorities are messed up and need to be reordered. I know what I think should be done, but for now I’ll just say that there needs to be more equality.

Oh, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen only one contestant make to Final Jeopardy before. Now I have a Weird Al song going through my head.